Topgrading (Revised PHP Edition): How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People
Great companies don’t just depend on strategies—they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that’s easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart’s advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage.\ Now...
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A world-renowned industrial psychologist and consultant shares his proven strategy for hiring and developing top-notch employees, using case files pulled from more than 4,000 in-depth interviews to illustrate good corporate coaching techniques. Soundview Executive Book Summaries "Topgrading" is defined as achieving teams of almost all A players: those in the top 10 percent of talent available for the pay. In 1999, Brad Smart published the first edition of Topgrading to offer organizations the best techniques for hiring 90 percent A players, promoting 90 percent A players and having 90 percent A players in management. Now, Smart has updated his original book to include more success stories of companies that have been able to produce talented teams using his topgrading techniques. In this new edition of Topgrading, Smart explains how every organization can benefit. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries
Preface : what's new in topgradingIntroduction : talent wins1Topgrading : every manager's top priority32The financial and career costs of not topgrading363Hiring and promoting talent : the topgrading platinum standard564Redeploying chronic B and C players : a moral approach1055Topgrading case studies : A players, no excuses1256Obstacles to topgrading, and how A players overcome them : a review of major topgrading principles in part one1707Becoming an A player : having your cake and eating it too1898Fixing weaknesses in each of fifty competencies : the straightest path to success2179Coaching 101 : the topgrading-based model24610Case studies : coaching to fix weaknesses27211Your most powerful tool : the topgrading interview guide30912Avoiding legal problems : a "bulletproof" approach to safe hiring, managing, and firing practices354Epilogue : topgrading in the future421App. ATopgrading interview guide431App. BSelf-administered topgrading interviewing guide486App. CCareer history form502App. DIn-depth reference check guide511App. ECandidate assessment scorecard518App. FInterviewer feedback form522App. GSample competencies - management527App. HSample individual development plan536App. ICost of mis-hires form540App. JTopgraders - contact information for consulting and licensing forms544
\ Soundview Executive Book Summaries"Topgrading" is defined as achieving teams of almost all A players: those in the top 10 percent of talent available for the pay. In 1999, Brad Smart published the first edition of Topgrading to offer organizations the best techniques for hiring 90 percent A players, promoting 90 percent A players and having 90 percent A players in management. Now, Smart has updated his original book to include more success stories of companies that have been able to produce talented teams using his topgrading techniques. In this new edition of Topgrading, Smart explains how every organization can benefit. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries\ \
